USPTO Examiner HSIEH PING Y - Art Unit 2664

Recent Applications

Detailed information about the 100 most recent patent applications.

Application NumberTitleFiling DateDisposal DateDispositionTime (months)Office ActionsRestrictionsInterviewAppeal
19031417METHODS AND DEVICES FOR DETECTING SURFACE DEFECTS BASED ON PERCEPTUAL AUTOENCODERSJanuary 2025March 2025Allow200NoNo
18994255CABLE DAMAGE DETECTION BY MACHINE VISIONJanuary 2025June 2025Allow500NoNo
18955810METHOD FOR CONSTRUCTING DEFECT DETECTION MODEL, METHOD FOR DETECTING DEFECT AND RELATED APPARATUSNovember 2024February 2025Allow200NoNo
18930296METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR FISH IDENTIFICATION BASED ON BODY SURFACE TEXTURE FEATURES AND GEOMETRIC FEATURESOctober 2024December 2024Allow200NoNo
18884399INFORMATION PROCESSING APPARATUS, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND PROGRAMSeptember 2024April 2025Allow710YesNo
18816849MULTI-ANGLE IMAGE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION METHOD FOR CADMIUM ZINC TELLURIDE CHIPSAugust 2024October 2024Allow200NoNo
18764824METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SURFACE DEFECT DETECTION BASED ON FEW-SHOT LEARNINGJuly 2024August 2024Allow200NoNo
18629281Conformance Testing of Manufactured Parts via Neural NetworksApril 2024July 2024Allow410NoNo
18588245APPARATUS AND METHODS FOR AUTOMATED MENTORSHIP USING MACHINE-LEARNING PROCESSESFebruary 2024August 2024Allow510YesNo
18425425System for Ensuring Safe DrivingJanuary 2024August 2024Allow610NoNo
18423389INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMJanuary 2024May 2025Allow1710NoNo
18412985SYSTEMS AND METHODS RELATED TO POWER AMPLIFICATION AND POWER SUPPLY CONTROLJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1510NoNo
18406211HOT SPOT DEFECT DETECTING METHOD AND HOT SPOT DEFECT DETECTING SYSTEMJanuary 2024April 2025Allow1510NoNo
18565533RADIO FREQUENCY DOMAIN CALIBRATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR RADIO FREQUENCY CIRCUIT UNITSNovember 2023April 2024Allow500NoNo
18518175METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION OF PERSONSNovember 2023April 2025Allow1610NoNo
18383633CONFLATION OF GEOSPATIAL POINTS OF INTEREST AND GROUND-LEVEL IMAGERYOctober 2023December 2023Allow200NoNo
18489250SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE REAL-TIME MULTI-OBJECT TRACKINGOctober 2023April 2025Allow1810NoNo
18466116Radio-frequency Amplifier Circuitry with Improved Transmit and Receive PerformanceSeptember 2023April 2025Allow1910YesNo
18459406SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR LOCATING OBJECTSAugust 2023November 2024Allow1410NoNo
18235279HIGH-SPEED DELAY SCANNING AND DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR SPECTROSCOPIC SRS IMAGINGAugust 2023April 2025Allow1910NoNo
18234682Selection of Video Frames Using a Machine Learning PredictorAugust 2023February 2025Allow1810NoNo
18365134FULLY AUTOMATED SEM SAMPLING SYSTEM FOR E-BEAM IMAGE ENHANCEMENTAugust 2023June 2024Allow1010NoNo
18226543SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR HYPERSPECTRAL IMAGE-BASED QUALITY CONTROL ANALYSIS OF CROP LOADSJuly 2023October 2023Allow200NoNo
18204797SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR A MULTI-MODEL MESSAGE GENERATION ARCHITECTUREJune 2023August 2023Allow200NoNo
18204406DETECTION METHOD, DETECTION DEVICE AND STORAGE MEDIUMJune 2023May 2024Allow1220NoNo
18325127CLASSIFICATION WITH SEGMENTATION NEURAL NETWORK FOR IMAGE-BASED CONTENT CAPTUREMay 2023September 2024Allow1620YesNo
18322157GEOSPATIAL OBJECT GEOMETRY EXTRACTION FROM IMAGERYMay 2023July 2024Allow1410NoNo
18317928ATTENTION-BASED JOINT IMAGE AND FEATURE ADAPTIVE SEMANTIC SEGMENTATION METHODMay 2023August 2023Allow300NoNo
18196900METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DEFECT DETECTIONMay 2023November 2023Allow610YesNo
18307220SYSTEM AND METHODS FOR DETERMINING MODIFIED FRACTIONAL FLOW RESERVE VALUESApril 2023July 2024Allow1410NoNo
18306166SUBTLE DEFECT DETECTION METHOD BASED ON COARSE-TO-FINE STRATEGYApril 2023June 2023Allow100NoNo
18305287ENSEMBLE OF DEEP LEARNING MODELS FOR DEFECT REVIEW IN HIGH VOLUME MANUFACTURINGApril 2023September 2024Allow1700NoNo
18301315METHOD AND DETECTOR FOR DETECTING A PRESENCE OF A WIRELESS DEVICEApril 2023June 2025Allow2500NoNo
18300758METHOD FOR LARGE SCENE ELASTIC SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION AND SELF-SUPERVISED LIGHT FIELD RECONSTRUCTIONApril 2023July 2023Allow300NoNo
18128140CONTEXT-BASED DEFECT INSPECTIONMarch 2023October 2023Allow700NoNo
18171511Training Image and Text Embedding ModelsFebruary 2023March 2024Allow1320NoNo
18168635BASE STATION ANTENNA WITH HIGH PERFORMANCE ACTIVE ANTENNA SYSTEM (AAS) INTEGRATED THEREINFebruary 2023March 2025Allow2521NoNo
18018857VISUAL ANALYSIS METHOD FOR CABLE ELEMENT IDENTIFICATIONJanuary 2023June 2023Allow400NoNo
18101997METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TESTING DEVICE UNDER TEST (DUT) OVER LONG DISTANCEJanuary 2023May 2025Allow2800NoNo
18157157RADIO-FREQUENCY MODULE AND COMMUNICATION DEVICEJanuary 2023May 2025Allow2800NoNo
18095626VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT MODELING WITH A CAMERAJanuary 2023August 2023Allow710NoNo
18150665DAMAGE DETECTION USING MACHINE LEARNINGJanuary 2023April 2025Allow2710NoNo
18148256ATTRIBUTIONALLY ROBUST TRAINING FOR WEAKLY SUPERVISED LOCALIZATION AND SEGMENTATIONDecember 2022September 2023Allow810NoNo
18064649COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST RESULT INTERPRETATION PLATFORM UTILIZING COMPUTER VISIONDecember 2022September 2023Allow900NoNo
18062487COMMUNICATION AND POWERING SYSTEM FOR AN IMPLANTED SMART DEVICE AND USES OF THE SAMEDecember 2022April 2025Allow2800NoNo
17978672ELECTRONIC DEVICE AND METHOD WITH MACHINE LEARNING TRAININGNovember 2022February 2025Allow2800NoNo
17973525SOME AUTOMATED AND SEMI-AUTOMATED TOOLS FOR LINEAR FEATURE EXTRACTION IN TWO AND THREE DIMENSIONSOctober 2022September 2023Allow1010NoNo
17921282DEPTH ESTIMATION METHOD, DEPTH ESTIMATION DEVICE AND DEPTH ESTIMATION PROGRAMOctober 2022January 2025Allow2700NoNo
17962014NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHODOctober 2022April 2025Abandon3020NoYes
17938426ACOUSTIC WAVE DEVICES WITH MULTI-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC SUBSTRATEOctober 2022June 2025Allow3310YesNo
17915518LEARNING DEVICE, LEARNING METHOD, INFERENCE DEVICE, AND STORAGE MEDIUMSeptember 2022April 2025Allow3110NoNo
17907529Single Image 3D Photography with Soft-Layering and Depth-aware InpaintingSeptember 2022November 2024Allow2600NoNo
17934527DEEP LEARNING MODEL FOR HIGH RESOLUTION PREDICTIONSSeptember 2022February 2025Allow2910NoNo
17898780SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF DATA AUGMENTATION FOR PRE-TRAINED EMBEDDINGSAugust 2022August 2023Allow1110NoNo
17897963ELECTRIC TOOL SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM, MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND NON-TRANSITORY STORAGE MEDIUMAugust 2022March 2025Allow3110NoNo
17895713FAULT DETECTION METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TUNNEL DOME LIGHTS BASED ON IMPROVED LOCALIZATION LOSS FUNCTIONAugust 2022December 2023Allow1500NoNo
17892869Radio-frequency Amplifier Circuitry with Improved Transmit and Receive PerformanceAugust 2022May 2025Abandon3310NoNo
17885218COMPUTER SYSTEMS AND COMPUTER-IMPLEMENTED METHODS FOR RAPID DIAGNOSTIC TEST RESULT INTERPRETATION PLATFORM UTILIZING COMPUTER VISIONAugust 2022October 2022Allow200NoNo
17817469RADIO FREQUENCY MEASUREMENT SYSTEM AND A METHOD FOR RECORDING BASEBAND AND POSITIONING DATAAugust 2022September 2024Allow2600NoNo
17880769PINCH GESTURE DETECTION AND RECOGNITION METHOD, DEVICE AND SYSTEMAugust 2022May 2023Allow910NoNo
17816377Method and System for Detecting Plane InformationJuly 2022May 2023Allow910NoNo
17875726Rightsizing Software StacksJuly 2022January 2025Allow3010NoNo
17866265PROVISION OF AUDIO AND VIDEO STREAMS BASED ONHAND DISTANCESJuly 2022April 2025Abandon3310NoNo
17859945REPRESENTATION LEARNING FOR OBJECT DETECTION FROM UNLABELED POINT CLOUD SEQUENCESJuly 2022May 2025Allow3420YesNo
17855745DRIVING SCENARIO UNDERSTANDINGJune 2022August 2024Allow2600NoNo
17789560Communication Link Adjustment Method and Apparatus, Electronic Device, and Readable MediumJune 2022November 2024Allow2910NoNo
17808466MULTIPLEXER WITH ACOUSTIC WAVE FILTERS AND TRAP CIRCUITJune 2022November 2024Allow2910NoNo
17844469COMMUNICATION APPARATUS FOR MISSION PERFORMING USER AND RELATED METHODSJune 2022July 2025Allow3630NoNo
17841937VEHICLE ENVIRONMENT MODELING WITH A CAMERAJune 2022September 2022Allow300NoNo
17830939SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) CLASSIFIER OF SCANNED ITEMSJune 2022August 2022Allow200NoNo
17830826IMAGE ENHANCEMENT SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON GENERATIVE ADVERSARIAL NETWORK (GAN) MODELJune 2022April 2023Allow1000NoNo
17804909METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATION OF PERSONSJune 2022August 2023Allow1510NoNo
17777612FACIAL EXPRESSION LABELING APPARATUS, FACIAL EXPRESSION LABELLING METHOD, AND PROGRAMMay 2022July 2024Allow2600NoNo
17732540VISION-LiDAR FUSION METHOD AND SYSTEM BASED ON DEEP CANONICAL CORRELATION ANALYSISApril 2022September 2022Allow500NoNo
17729431SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR TRAINING AN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI) CLASSIFIER OF SCANNED ITEMSApril 2022July 2022Allow310NoNo
17660218SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IDENTIFYING A SERVICE QUALIFICATION OF A MULTI-UNIT BUILDING BASED ON EXTERIOR ACCESSApril 2022July 2024Allow2710NoNo
17726383SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR ENHANCING MEDICAL IMAGESApril 2022November 2024Allow3010NoNo
17769269CONTEXT-DRIVEN LEARNING OF HUMAN-OBJECT INTERACTIONSApril 2022October 2024Allow3010NoNo
17659208CARDIO AI SMART ASSISTANT FOR SEMANTIC IMAGE ANALYSIS OF MEDICAL IMAGING STUDIESApril 2022October 2024Allow3010NoNo
17656415SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR ONLINE REAL-TIME MULTI-OBJECT TRACKINGMarch 2022July 2023Allow1610NoNo
17656137Domain Adaptation Using Simulation to Simulation TransferMarch 2022December 2023Allow2110NoNo
17694384SYSTEMS AND METHODS OF REAL-TIME MOVEMENT, POSITION DETECTION, AND IMAGINGMarch 2022February 2024Allow2320NoNo
17693005MODULAR LOW LATENCY ELECTRICAL SEQUENCE FOR DIE-TO-DIE INTERFACEMarch 2022April 2025Allow3700NoNo
17689452METHODS AND SYSTEMS FOR FEATURE RECOGNITION OF TWO-DIMENSIONAL PRINTS FOR MANUFACTUREMarch 2022September 2022Allow610NoNo
17686448PROCESSING APPARATUS, MOBILE OBJECT, PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMMarch 2022September 2024Allow3110NoNo
17681085METHOD AND ELECTRONIC PORTAL SYSTEM FOR BUILDING FA�ADE INSPECTIONFebruary 2022December 2024Abandon3310NoNo
17638231METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR PERFORMING DE-IDENTIFIED LOCATION ANALYTICSFebruary 2022May 2024Allow2600NoNo
17681291SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR GEO-REFERENCING OBJECT ON FLOORFebruary 2022November 2024Allow3210NoNo
17674495METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DYNAMIC CROPPING OF FULL BODY POSE IMAGESFebruary 2022April 2024Allow2600NoNo
17650412SYSTEM FOR IDENTIFYING AND TRACKING TOOLS, INSTRUMENTS AND CONSUMABLE PLACED ON WORKSURFACESFebruary 2022September 2024Allow3210NoNo
17667567INFORMATION PROCESSING DEVICE, INFORMATION PROCESSING METHOD, AND STORAGE MEDIUMFebruary 2022November 2023Allow2120NoNo
17650053SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REGISTRATION BETWEEN PATIENT SPACE AND IMAGE SPACE USING REGISTRATION FRAME APERTURESFebruary 2022September 2024Allow3210NoNo
17591662METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN ORIENTATION OF AN INDUSTRIAL TRUCKFebruary 2022July 2024Allow3010NoNo
17629373RECONSTRUCTION METHOD OF THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) HUMAN BODY MODEL, STORAGE DEVICE AND CONTROL DEVICEJanuary 2022July 2022Allow600NoNo
17574428GRAPH NEURAL NETWORK TRAINING METHODS AND SYSTEMSJanuary 2022October 2024Allow3320YesNo
17569966HIGH-SPEED DELAY SCANNING AND DEEP LEARNING TECHNIQUES FOR SPECTROSCOPIC SRS IMAGINGJanuary 2022May 2023Allow1600NoNo
17567402Cognitive AttributionJanuary 2022June 2023Allow1710NoNo
17565115Image-Based Assay Performance ImprovementDecember 2021January 2023Allow1310NoNo
17560149SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR DETECTING OBJECTS CROSSING PLANESDecember 2021September 2024Allow3310NoNo
17555112MULTI-SCALE RECURRENT DECODER FOR MONOCULAR DEPTH ESTIMATIONDecember 2021May 2023Allow1710NoNo

Appeals Overview

This analysis examines appeal outcomes and the strategic value of filing appeals for examiner HSIEH, PING Y.

Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) Decisions

Total PTAB Decisions
3
Examiner Affirmed
1
(33.3%)
Examiner Reversed
2
(66.7%)
Reversal Percentile
86.6%
Higher than average

What This Means

With a 66.7% reversal rate, the PTAB has reversed the examiner's rejections more often than affirming them. This reversal rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that appeals are more successful here than in most other areas.

Strategic Value of Filing an Appeal

Total Appeal Filings
8
Allowed After Appeal Filing
5
(62.5%)
Not Allowed After Appeal Filing
3
(37.5%)
Filing Benefit Percentile
89.6%
Higher than average

Understanding Appeal Filing Strategy

Filing a Notice of Appeal can sometimes lead to allowance even before the appeal is fully briefed or decided by the PTAB. This occurs when the examiner or their supervisor reconsiders the rejection during the mandatory appeal conference (MPEP § 1207.01) after the appeal is filed.

In this dataset, 62.5% of applications that filed an appeal were subsequently allowed. This appeal filing benefit rate is in the top 25% across the USPTO, indicating that filing appeals is particularly effective here. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Strategic Recommendations

Appeals to PTAB show good success rates. If you have a strong case on the merits, consider fully prosecuting the appeal to a Board decision.

Filing a Notice of Appeal is strategically valuable. The act of filing often prompts favorable reconsideration during the mandatory appeal conference.

Examiner HSIEH, PING Y - Prosecution Strategy Guide

Executive Summary

Examiner HSIEH, PING Y works in Art Unit 2664 and has examined 477 patent applications in our dataset. With an allowance rate of 94.3%, this examiner allows applications at a higher rate than most examiners at the USPTO. Applications typically reach final disposition in approximately 22 months.

Allowance Patterns

Examiner HSIEH, PING Y's allowance rate of 94.3% places them in the 84% percentile among all USPTO examiners. This examiner is more likely to allow applications than most examiners at the USPTO.

Office Action Patterns

On average, applications examined by HSIEH, PING Y receive 1.02 office actions before reaching final disposition. This places the examiner in the 13% percentile for office actions issued. This examiner issues significantly fewer office actions than most examiners.

Prosecution Timeline

The median time to disposition (half-life) for applications examined by HSIEH, PING Y is 22 months. This places the examiner in the 80% percentile for prosecution speed. Applications move through prosecution relatively quickly with this examiner.

Interview Effectiveness

Conducting an examiner interview provides a +3.7% benefit to allowance rate for applications examined by HSIEH, PING Y. This interview benefit is in the 25% percentile among all examiners. Note: Interviews show limited statistical benefit with this examiner compared to others, though they may still be valuable for clarifying issues.

Request for Continued Examination (RCE) Effectiveness

When applicants file an RCE with this examiner, 35.4% of applications are subsequently allowed. This success rate is in the 75% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: RCEs show above-average effectiveness with this examiner. Consider whether your amendments or new arguments are strong enough to warrant an RCE versus filing a continuation.

After-Final Amendment Practice

This examiner enters after-final amendments leading to allowance in 49.2% of cases where such amendments are filed. This entry rate is in the 69% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Recommendation: This examiner shows above-average receptiveness to after-final amendments. If your amendments clearly overcome the rejections and do not raise new issues, consider filing after-final amendments before resorting to an RCE.

Pre-Appeal Conference Effectiveness

When applicants request a pre-appeal conference (PAC) with this examiner, 0.0% result in withdrawal of the rejection or reopening of prosecution. This success rate is in the 10% percentile among all examiners. Note: Pre-appeal conferences show limited success with this examiner compared to others. While still worth considering, be prepared to proceed with a full appeal brief if the PAC does not result in favorable action.

Appeal Withdrawal and Reconsideration

This examiner withdraws rejections or reopens prosecution in 66.7% of appeals filed. This is in the 44% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Insight: This examiner shows below-average willingness to reconsider rejections during appeals. Be prepared to fully prosecute appeals if filed.

Petition Practice

When applicants file petitions regarding this examiner's actions, 21.3% are granted (fully or in part). This grant rate is in the 12% percentile among all examiners. Strategic Note: Petitions are rarely granted regarding this examiner's actions compared to other examiners. Ensure you have a strong procedural basis before filing a petition, as the Technology Center Director typically upholds this examiner's decisions.

Examiner Cooperation and Flexibility

Examiner's Amendments: This examiner makes examiner's amendments in 0.0% of allowed cases (in the 20% percentile). This examiner rarely makes examiner's amendments compared to other examiners. You should expect to make all necessary claim amendments yourself through formal amendment practice.

Quayle Actions: This examiner issues Ex Parte Quayle actions in 0.4% of allowed cases (in the 49% percentile). This examiner issues Quayle actions less often than average. Allowances may come directly without a separate action for formal matters.

Prosecution Strategy Recommendations

Based on the statistical analysis of this examiner's prosecution patterns, here are tailored strategic recommendations:

    Relevant MPEP Sections for Prosecution Strategy

    • MPEP § 713.10: Examiner interviews - available before Notice of Allowance or transfer to PTAB
    • MPEP § 714.12: After-final amendments - may be entered "under justifiable circumstances"
    • MPEP § 1002.02(c): Petitionable matters to Technology Center Director
    • MPEP § 1004: Actions requiring primary examiner signature (allowances, final rejections, examiner's answers)
    • MPEP § 1207.01: Appeal conferences - mandatory for all appeals
    • MPEP § 1214.07: Reopening prosecution after appeal

    Important Disclaimer

    Not Legal Advice: The information provided in this report is for informational purposes only and does not constitute legal advice. You should consult with a qualified patent attorney or agent for advice specific to your situation.

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    Use at Your Own Risk: While we strive to provide accurate and useful prosecution statistics, you should independently verify any information that is material to your prosecution strategy and use your professional judgment in all patent prosecution matters.